Bye, Bye, Summer

The real estate world is still wiping a long weekend of sleep from its eyes. What Newsday architecture critic Justin Davidson sees in front of him is the city’s <a href=”http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/brooklyn/nyc-rive0905,0,6282381.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-brooklyn$150 million plan to landscape the East River around Wall Street. He concludes: “Compared with the monstrous cost and difficulties of forcing towers, train stations, memorials and museums to bloom out of the bedrock of Ground Zero, beautifying the waterfront seems like a cheap and easy way to increase the area’s allure, both for residents and corporate tenants.”